Koi are kind of like cows

The koi are all in the large pond, so we’re busy feeding koi from 4 inches to 21 inches. The smaller koi from the lower pond appear to have grown an inch in just a few days of swimming around the big pond. The little fry that hatched earlier this summer are now 2.5 inches long and seen more often. There are three that are orange-ish and two that are dark. I crush up koi food for the smallest koi to feed upon but the big guys seem to enjoy crushed food was well. They remind me of cattle, snuffling up the little bits in the ever present string algae…

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I grew up in Southern California and graduated from the United States Military Academy (West Point) in 1982. I was commissioned a military intelligence officer and served with XVIII ABN Corps (Fort Bragg, NC), 82d ABN Div (Fort Bragg, NC) and 42d FA Bde (Germany). I hold a master's degree in early childhood special education and an administrative endorsement in educational supervision.

I moved to Minnesota in 2010 and married a man who happens to enjoy digging holes and constructing waterfalls. I envision that every spring and summer will be spent puttering around a koi pond. Aside from koi, I enjoy starting random hobbies (trapeze lessons, pottery, sumi-e), gardening, reading a good book, drinking tea and a thousand other things that won't fit into this text box.

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